Maple Leaf Bar, Seike City, central part of Eslar Continent.
Maiya sat silently in the bar (a friendly guest appearance by netizen "→星←"). His brown-red hair and big blue eyes made him very eye-catching in the entire bar, but Maiya used the priest's robe he was wearing to
The collar covered his entire face, as if he didn't want others to see his face clearly.
Maia has been living in the slums of Sike City since the day he was sensible. He was so small and frail that he had no idea who his parents were. When he was young, he could only find some wild animals in the garbage heap every day.
Dogs don’t want to eat anything to satisfy their hunger.
Perhaps it was the blessing of the goddess of luck. One day, a priest passing by saw Maiya surrounded by several wild dogs. The several-year-old Maia used her thin arms to hold another weaker little girl tightly.
He did not care about the marks on his face and body that were scratched by wild dogs.
At that moment, Maiya impressed the pastor with his innate kindness.
The pastor drove away the wild dogs and took Maia and the little girl back to the church.
The pastor who adopted Maia was a newly promoted bishop of the Church of Light. He was appointed by the Church of Light in Fernando City and came to Seike City to preside over the Church of Light here. As a result, Maia and the little girl were attracted by this kind protagonist.
He was adopted as his adopted son and daughter, and they lived together in the Church of Light in Sike City.
Since childhood, he has been accustomed to seeing the great priest who adopted him always use the light of the God of Light to favor the poor. Maia gradually became interested in the profession of priest. With his own efforts and the training of his adoptive father, Maiya became
Maia was successfully promoted to the trainee pastor of the Church of Light two months ago.
Maia still clearly remembers that day. When she learned that she had been successfully promoted, she jumped up with joy. Her sister who grew up with her hugged each other tightly, and tears of excitement flowed from her face. Maia thought,
From now on, I can use my own power to purify all the evil in the world, relieve all the suffering of the poor on the mainland, and let everyone around me live a happy life just like my adoptive father.
However, Maier was wrong.
When Maia was preparing to join a team of adventurers to bring light to others like his adoptive father, no adventurer team was willing to accept him. In fact, the reason was very simple. Maia was too jealous of evil.
He is completely incompatible with those mercenaries who are busy making money.
Maia once joined a team of adventurers, but he only stayed in this team for 2 days.
On the first day, when Maia first joined the adventurer team, as usual, she meddle in several things that she shouldn't have done in the business district of Seike City and offended several rich and powerful nobles.
Normally, those nobles looked at Maia's adoptive father's face and did not have the same understanding as Maia, but they had no worries when dealing with Maia's adventurer team. As a result, this adventurer team encountered obstacles everywhere in Seike City.
I lost several missions and received them, for which the captain of the adventure team even had a big quarrel with Maiya.
The next day, the adventurer team decided to leave Seike City and go to other places. Since Maiya was the only one in the team who was from Seike City, the captain took out a sum of money and asked Maiya to buy some things that might be used during the adventure.
As a result, Maia walked to the slums and saw the poor people. She got excited and used all the gold coins in her hand to buy food and send it to the poor people in the slums.
So, Maia returned to the bar, waiting for the next adventurer team willing to accept her.
The news about Maiya spread throughout the city of Seike, and every adventurer team that lacked manpower was unwilling to accept him and would rather leave a vacant position.
Maiya would go to the Mercenary Guild every day, and then walk out disappointed, come to this Maple Leaf Bar to have a few drinks, and then return to the Church of Light in despair.
"Boss, give me another drink." Maia patted the bar gently and said to the busy boss.
The owner of the Maple Leaf Bar glanced at Mai Ya, shook his head and said, "Mai Zi, don't keep doing this. You are a good person, but the things you did are not appropriate."
Maiya asked extremely depressed: "I didn't do anything wrong, why, why is this happening?"
Before the boss could speak, a seductive female voice said: "It's simple, you haven't found a suitable team."
When Maiya heard the sound, she saw a woman covered in a black cloak standing next to her.
Maiya said: "You? Are you willing to hire me? Aren't you afraid that I will bring you trouble?"
A woman's voice came: "Trouble? What is trouble?"
Maia said: "Offend the nobles, use your money to buy food for the poor, and..."
The woman rushed to say: "If this is the case, then you have not done enough. Why can the nobles be so high and high, and why can the poor only be bullied all their lives?"
After listening to the woman's words, Maia's eyes lit up. This was the first time he heard someone having similar thoughts to his own.
The woman's seductive voice sounded in Maiya's ears again: "But you did it wrong!"
Maiya said unconvinced: "Why, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't expect you to..."
The woman interrupted Maia mercilessly and said, "You can buy food for them today, but what about tomorrow? How many gold coins do you have? How many days can you take care of them?"
The series of questions left Maiya speechless. Indeed, what the woman said made sense. But when Maia saw those poor people, she remembered her miserable childhood and could no longer control herself.
The woman added: "There is nothing wrong with sympathizing with them, but your method is wrong. If you want to manage them, you must give them a way to survive, instead of just letting them eat once and then continue to live in poverty. The consequences are huge."
The gap, on the contrary, is a kind of pain for them."
Maia said: "I haven't thought about it that much. I just hope that there will be no more poverty and inequality on the entire continent."
The woman said: "I can do it, will you join my team?"
"You?" Maia asked doubtfully, "Why can you say that?"
"Do you know about the Royal Tournament?"
"I know." Maiya replied.
The woman said: "In this year's Royal Athletic Competition, the champion team can make a request to His Majesty the Emperor. My request is that there will no longer be poor people on the mainland, and that the empire will spend more effort to pay attention to these people who live in poverty.
The people at the bottom make the mainland no longer have all kinds of inequality."
Maia's blood boiled when he heard this, and he said loudly: "I do!"
The woman opened her cloak, revealing a breathtakingly beautiful face, and said to Maiya: "Welcome to my goddess team, Pastor. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Catherine Landi, you can call me